Can you safely assume your ps is good if you got interviews?

[ftp902]

Hi everyone. I was just wondering general process of reviewing apps.
I got several interviews from high to low tier schools. Can I safely assume that my PS is good if I have multiple interviews? I ask this question because I personally think that my PS is not up to par and whenever I read it, I was not satisfied. I heard from somewhere that II are often given based on your secondary and PS is read later in the decision process to determine if you are in or not. Is this true? Or is is that PS is considered into inviting student?

I would like to hear from adcoms on sdn!

Thanks

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[NCPremed13]

I'd be interested in knowing more about this from adcoms too! I figure that you wouldn't get interviews with a horrible PS, so yours must be at least decent congrats!

 

[gyngyn]

One can be invited in spite of the PS.

 

[Goro]

I'd say yes. Given the rigor of competition for applicants, I can see who people with weak PS's or ones riddled with poor grammar or typos would be culled.

 

[mik30102]

Maybe not good but surley acceptable. If it was horrendous I doubt a school would interview you.

 

[BestDoctorEver]

Two weeks ago I was told by an adcom (professor) at my school that PS don't play a big role in that process unless it's bad... He told me that about 10% of PS are excellent, 80% are average and the other 10% are bad that you can tell these applicants did not put that much effort on them... Is that true @Goro ?

 

[ftp902]

One can be invited in spite of the PS.

@gyngyn Does that mean that PS is indeed considered before interview? In which step of the application process is PS read? Is it before interview or before the final decision or both? I would think that it will depend on schools though.

 

[andrewRA4]

One can be invited in spite of the PS.

How about schools that don't have secondaries?

 

[gyngyn]

How about schools that don't have secondaries?

I don't have any experience with schools without secondaries.
We have all noticed that the PS is a lot more "edited" than than other parts of the application, though.

 

[gyngyn]

@gyngyn Does that mean that PS is indeed considered before interview? In which step of the application process is PS read? Is it before interview or before the final decision or both? I would think that it will depend on schools though.

Schools with human screeners read a lot of PS's before an invitation is given.
The committee gets to read all data after the interview.